Landlord fined $4,500 over fire that destroyed East Vancouver apartment building - BC
Flames broke out at the building at East 10th Avenue and Prince Edwards Street on July 27, 2023. The damage left 30 people homeless.
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Flames broke out at the building at East 10th Avenue and Prince Edwards Street on July 27, 2023. The damage left 30 people homeless.
Fu Ren and Feng Yan pleaded guilty to six of 20 code violations they were facing related to the building, but arguments over the remaining 14 did not get underway.
Inspection reports for a Vancouver apartment building gutted by a recent fire reveal the challenges that the city faces in getting property owners to address fire code violations — difficulties that leave renters in neglected buildings at risk, some experts and tenant advocates warn.
Boarded up but accessible, the city says it’s the owner’s responsibility to secure the building.
For the third time in two weeks, Vancouver firefighters were called to extinguish a blaze at a vacant apartment building in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood on Wednesday.